The Pokémon Company Rakes In $124 Million Net Profit, A 50% Year-On-Year Increase

TPC revenue by fiscal year:

FY2012: $16.6 million
FY2013: $10.6 million
FY2014: $18.4 million
FY2015: $5.6 million
FY2016: $143.3 million
FY2017: $80.8 million
FY2018: $124.0 million

:v why don’t you put some of that money into Gamefreak so they can actually expand pokemon

This year I’ve bought two TCG booster boxes. I’ll get the Detective Pikachu Blu-Ray when it comes out and of course Sword and Shield in November. I’m doing my part!

@westman98 why was 2015 such a bad year? Was it due to the lack of main line game?

I bought Let’s Go Pikachu with a Pokeball. You’re welcome, TPC.

@AxeltheBuizel Yeah, the only Pokemon game in 2015 was Super Mystery Dungeon.

Just wait for when Pokemon Go Plus + Deluxe Extreme Ultimate Complete XX version comes out, the stocks will just explode then

Meowth, that’s a nice profit!

Well deserved, if you ask me. Creating a franchise that has endured this long, and in the process creating millions of fans, adults and children alike is a huge accomplishment.

It really is something to behold. A gaming franchise with as little effort put into it as Pokemon rakes in money and die hard fans at an alarming rate. And while similarly profitable and low effort franchises like Call of Duty have a large group of critics, it’s almost taboo to say anything negative about Pokemon. I do get the appeal, but Nintendo themselves have much better RPG series in their repertoire that sadly don’t get nearly as much recognition.

Well deserved.

And they won't use any of the money to have Blastiose shoot water out of his cannons :v

The James image when?!

XD

I'm not really surprised by the amount of revenue that the Pokemon franchise has, which if I'm surprised is the amount of "software / apps" that are developing in a short time.

Pokemon is a money maker for both Nintendo and the Pokemon Company.

10 million seller (let’s go) = about 600 million dollars, about 1/3 go to the Pokémon company= 200 million

Add to that profit from the accessories, cards, Pokémon go, the continued sales of USUM for the 3ds, Detective Pikachu and Pokémon 2 movies, spinoff and other things, i wonder what the numbers actually is before spendings....

So Detective Pikachu will be little above 400m worldwide. That was a hit or miss? Don' t know how much money it needed to make even. Production budget was too high and the company don't get back the full amount of revenue from theaters

Just wait until Pokemon Sword and Shield drop! The Switch will probably be pushing 40 million units in the wild when Sword and Shield drop around November. 10 bucks says at a minimum that ends up as 10 million sales for the games.

Full meat Pokemon games in HD, playable on TV or in portable for the first time? My guess is in the first month alone they sell 3-5 million copies!

If they made a killer profit this year, just wait until the next with Sword and Shield numbers.

@dimi

When it comes to big summer movies with a lot of advertising they generally say double the production budget to get an idea of the full cost of a movie with all associated costs. Now granted, not every movie is gonna spend a ton of cash like that so take it with a grain of salt. Movie companies rarely disclose advertising spending. So let’s just say Detective Pikachu cost 300 million to make and promote, they’re looking at a 100+ million profit. Not bad for a new movie franchise.

Detective Pikachu 2 has already been announced, so WB must be impressed enough. I’d say it’s a modest success, with plenty of room for growth in the sequels.

@MoonKnight7 hope so. It deserves it